Paul Catty spricht . . .
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Joseph Addison
He more had pleased us, had he pleased us less.
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Konrad Adenauer
God thinks in geniuses, dreams in poets and sleeps in the rest of us.
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Hans Christian Andersen
'But the Emperor has nothing on at all!' cried a little child.
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Archimedes
Give me but one firm spot on which to stand, and I will move the earth.
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Archimedes
Eureka! [I've got it!]
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Aristoteles
Man is by nature a political animal.
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Aristoteles
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
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Neil Alden Gravning Armstrong
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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Lady Nancy Witcher Astor
I married beneath me, all women do.
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Hl. Aurelius Augustinus
Give me mothers and I'll save the sinking world.
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Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Francis Bacon
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Francis Bacon
Opportunity makes a thief.
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Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Francis Bacon
All colours will agree in the dark.
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Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Francis Bacon
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'
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Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Francis Bacon
Books are ships which pass through the vast sea of time.
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Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Francis Bacon
In peace the sons bury their fathers and in war the fathers bury their sons.
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Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Francis Bacon
Nothing is to be feared but fear.
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Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Francis Bacon
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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Josephine Baker
It is a long way from ear to heart, but a still longer way to helping hands.
